Book : Merchants Of Culture The Publishing Business In The..

-Titulo Original : Merchants Of Culture The Publishing Business In The Twenty-first Century

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Review A fine-grained snapshot... of the terminal struggle of traditional publishers. [Thompsons] mordant picture of an industry in crisis gives publishers, writers and readers much to think about.-Jason Epstein, The New York Review of Books [Thompson] draws on valuable interviews and the mass of statistics that the field itself devours in search of success. He offers a calm, relatively sanguine account of contemporary publishing, a world dominated by the $6 million advance, the blockbuster and the buzz.-Times Literary SupplementThompson bring forensic keeneness, acuity, breadth, depth and wit to this page-turning study of the book trade, its denizens, demons and deities. [Merchants of Culture] ought to be prescribed reading for publishers, booksellers, writers, authors, reporters, reviewers and critics.-Mail & Guardian, South AfricaJohn B. Thompsons research has produced an excellent history and analysis; its a wonderful book, highly recommended.-Australian Book ReviewThe single most impressive fact to drive home about this remarkable book is that Thompson displays a rare gift, that of presenting a world of the most heart-stopping complexity in short, simple, inter-related steps ... This is a book to buy and use and keep on your shelf.-TribuneA superb history and analysis of publishing and bookselling, from the 1960s to the present, against the background of the rapidly expanding digital media. A salutary, scary read.-John Conwell, The New StatesmanA thorough and thoughtful analysis of publishing as a relatively self-contained world - a field obeying rules that are ultimately economic, but in ways refracted through maneuvers and conflicts that defy simple cost-benefit analysis. Anyone interested in publishing will want to read it.-Inside Higher EdFor some time to come, this is bound to be the definitive thing to read for anyone trying to understand the infrastructure of book culture - especially as it has taken shape over the past two or three decades.-The NationalThis impressively comprehensive and revealing analysis of the structures and processes of modern publishing is timely as the industry faces its digital future.-Katharine Reeve, Times Higher Education Book of the WeekThompsons study is one of the most valuable studies on publishing in recent decades, and promises to be the new reference point for sociological research on the publishing industry.-Cultural SociologyA very valuable book that is likely to become the standard reference on the Anglo-American publishing industry for many years to come.-MedieKulturFor the uninitiated, Merchants of Culture provides a very perceptive, thorough and in-depth view of how trade publishing really works in the English-speaking world today. For those of us in the business or for writers who are mystified by their publishers behavior, it offers a penetrating account of our business by a very shrewd, analytical observer. This book is the only thing Ive ever read about our industry that has really got it.-William Shinker, President and Publisher of Gotham Books and Avery Books, Penguin Group USAThompsons analysis of UK and US trade publishing is extraordinarily acute and insightful. It should be required reading for new entrants to the industry-but it will also illuminate many things for old publishing hands.-Helen Fraser, Former Managing Director, Penguin Group UKThis uncommonly perceptive and thorough study tells you all you need to know about the publishing industry at a time of momentous change.-Drake McFeely, Chairman and President, W.W. Norton & CompanyOne of the most intelligent and accessible accounts of the curious business of trade book publishing I have read. Anyone interested in knowing more about how our industry works-and where it might be headed-will find this book invaluable.-Morgan Entrekin, CEO and Publisher, Grove AtlanticAn eye-opening tour of both American and British trade publishing. Even veterans in the publishing worl